The protesters for democracy have already taken down two dictators in Tunisia and Egypt but the Algerian authorities have been successful so far in holding down protests that have started soon after the Tunisian revolts in early January 2011.

Algerian protests from the facebook album of RCD Algerie

Videos of thousands of protesters have been posted on You Tube and facebook. The following video posted on February 12 around 11 am London time shows the arrests of several activists as police forces clashes with protesters amidst chants:

Lofti Maamir, father of 6, died at the emergency care of the Douera Hospital, in the south-east suburb of Algiers, according to our source. It's the 4th casualties by self-immolation in Algeria since mid-January.

As Mubarak was ousted in Egypt, Algerian blogger Djazair avant tout could not help but refer to the contentious Egypt-Algeria football matches last year that led to violent clashes and posted
the following cartoon that says (fr):

The young people sent by the police to harass the protesters turned against their sponsors. They actually joined the protesters to shout Out with Bouteflika. They explain their decision by the fact that they felt manipulated ( by the police)

On twitter, Algerian twitter users are calling for support for their struggles on the twitter feed with the hash tag #feb12.